#1964 EL CAMINO BROWN WINDOWS#

In 1987, Chevrolet dropped the El Camino from its lineup for good. We have thousands of listings and a variety of. In 1968, the more powerful SS engine made the El Camino into one of the iconic muscle cars of the late 1960s and 1970s. Looking for a new and used 1960 to 1969 brown Chevrolet El Camino Vans for sale Use our search to find it. In 1964, the company introduced a new version, this one built on the brawnier Chevelle platform. El Camino 1972 El Camino 1970 El Camino 1968 El Camino 1966 El Camino 1964. Though the Ranchero was a steady seller, the first incarnation of the El Camino was not and Chevy discontinued it after just two years. In the United States, however, ute-type vehicles were slower to catch on. The ute was a huge hit eventually, virtually every company that sold cars Down Under made its own version. Unlike a standard pickup truck, the El Camino was adapted from the standard two-door Chevrolet station wagon platform and integrated the cab and cargo bed into the body.

#1964 EL CAMINO BROWN WINDOWS#

In response, Ford engineer Lewis Brandt designed a low-slung sedan-based vehicle that was a ritzy passenger car in the front, with wind-up windows and comfortable seats and a rough-and-tumble pickup in back. The Chevrolet El Camino is a coup utility vehicle that was produced by Chevrolet between 19591987.

Legend has it that a farmer’s wife from rural Victoria had written a letter to Ford Australia, asking the company to build a car that could carry her to church on Sundays and her husband’s pigs to market on Mondays. Since the 1930s, Australian farmers had been driving what they called “utes”-short for “coupé utility”-all around the outback. It was, ads trilled, “the most beautiful thing that ever shouldered a load!” “It rides and handles like a convertible,” Chevy said, “yet hauls and hustles like the workingest thing on wheels.”įord’s Ranchero was the first “car-truck” sold in the United States, but it was not a new idea.

Inspired by the Ford Ranchero, which had already been on the market for two years, the El Camino was a combination sedan-pickup truck built on the Impala body, with the same “cat’s eye” taillights and dramatic rear fins. On October 16, 1958, Chevrolet begins to sell a car-truck hybrid that it calls the El Camino.

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